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Kube). This free event is presented with the <b>370 J Project and NYU Skirball</b>! </span></p><p style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0"><span style="color:#0f030f">Megascope is the newly launched line of graphic novels from Abrams ComicArts dedicated to showcasing speculative and non-fiction works by and about people of color, with a focus on science fiction, fantasy, horror, history, and stories of magical realism.</span></p><p style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:20px;text-align:center"><span style="color:#0f030f">Click below to register for the event. Looking forward to seeing you there!</span></p>
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<p class="m_-3760652576509749928size-14" style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:0;font-size:14px;line-height:21px" lang="x-size-14"><span style="color:#0f030f"><b>John Jennings</b> is the curator of the Megascope list and illustrator of the graphic novel adaptations of Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower. He is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent graphic novel is After the Rain, a graphic novel adaptation by Nnedi Okorafor.</span></p><p class="m_-3760652576509749928size-14" style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0;font-size:14px;line-height:21px" lang="x-size-14"><span style="color:#0f030f"><b>Eric Anthony Glover</b> studied screenwriting at Sarah Lawrence College and studied feature and television writing as a 2016 Final Draft Big Break Fellow in Burbank, California. Glover is committed to writing about
underrepresented groups and hopes to make the world a better place with this work. Black Star is his debut graphic novel.</span></p><p class="m_-3760652576509749928size-14" style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0;font-size:14px;line-height:21px" lang="x-size-14"><span style="color:#0f030f"><b>Arielle Jovellanos</b> is a New York-based freelance illustrator, writer, and comic artist. Her work has been featured in the Eisner and Harvey–nominated anthology Fresh Romance and in magazines, comics, books, and branded social media campaigns. Recently, Jovellanos illustrated the book Fierce Heroines: Inspiring Female Characters of Pop Culture for Running Press Kids. Her most recent graphic novel is Black Star, which she illustrated. </span></p><p class="m_-3760652576509749928size-14" style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0;font-size:14px;line-height:21px" lang="x-size-14"><span style="color:#0f030f"><b>Ytasha L. Womack</b> is an award-winning author, filmmaker, independent scholar, and dance therapist. She is a leading expert on Afrofuturism and lectures on the imagination and its applications across the world. Her book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy Culture is the leading primer on the subject and taught in colleges and universities. </span></p><p class="m_-3760652576509749928size-14" style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0;font-size:14px;line-height:21px" lang="x-size-14"><span style="color:#0f030f">Also, don't forget to save the dates for this year's Brooklyn Book Festival. We look forward to seeing you in the fall -- in real life and on the virtual screen!</span></p><p class="m_-3760652576509749928size-14" style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0;font-size:14px;line-height:21px" lang="x-size-14"><span style="color:#0f030f">Liz Koch and Carolyn Greer,
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